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§. 7. And on the like account when they read and hear their erroneous Doctrines, and hear their incongruous words in prayer, they think they can never be too strict in shackling them and all others in prescribed forms: And nothing quieteth their Consciences in all this so much, as the undeniable errors, and follies and miscarriages of those that thus provoke them.

§. 8. But in this the Church in Augustine's days did not think that way the wisest cure: when he saith [Afferat, ut fieri solet, aliquam precem in qua loquatur contra regulam fidei (multi quippe irruunt in preces non solum ab imperitis loquacibus, sed etiam ab haereticis compositas, & per ignorantiae simplicitatem non eas valentes discernere, utuntur iis, arbitrantes quod bonae sint:) Nec tamen quod in eis perversum est evacuat illa quae ibi recta sunt; sed ab eis potius evacuatur] Aug. de bapt. cont. Donat. (as I remember about lib. 5. c. 11.) O truly charitable and peaceable Doctrine! And he that will separate from other for every difference (or real error) in Doctrine or Prayers, shall have enow to separate from him.

§. 8. But in this the Church in Augustines days did not think that way the wisest cure: when he saith [Afferat, ut fieri solet, aliquam precem in qua loquatur contra regulam fidei (multi quippe irruunt in preces non solum ab imperitis loquacibus, sed etiam ab haereticis compositas, & per ignorantiae simplicitatem non eas valentes discernere, utuntur iis, arbitrantes quod bonae sint:) Nec tamen quod in eis perversum est evacuat illa quae ibi recta sunt; sed ab eis potius evacuatur] Aug. de bapt. cont. Donat. (as I remember about lib. 5. c. 11.) O truly charitable and peaceable Doctrine! And he that will separate from other for every difference (or real error) in Doctrine or Prayers, shall have enow to separate from him.